Yesterday was a very good day on the web. An excellent 365 Tomorrows story, a real laugh-out-loud cartoon from Wellington Grey and one of my now all time favourite XKCDs.

I’m reading the excellent Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (of Blink and Tipping Point fame). The section I’m currently reading is referring to work on international cultures by Geert Hofstede.

The is where a lengthy questionnaire is put to large numbers of people from different countries in an attempt to…

I’ve signed the No2ID Pledge.

I’ve been vacillating about this for ages but it comes down to:

1. This is going to be hugely expensive, won’t work from an IT perspective and certainly won’t fix any of the things the government says it will do…